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What an amazing accomplishment - the recovery of 100 tonnes of silver!
In the deepest salvage operation in history, a British-led team has recovered a $50m (£34m; €47m) trove of coins that has lain on the seabed since the steamship carrying them from Bombay to England was sunk in 1942.
The City Of Cairo was sunk by Commander Karl-Friedrich Merten in U 68
In the deepest salvage operation in history, a British-led team has recovered a $50m (£34m; €47m) trove of coins that has lain on the seabed since the steamship carrying them from Bombay to England was sunk in 1942.
The City Of Cairo was sunk by Commander Karl-Friedrich Merten in U 68
